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[Diez B. Roggisch]

gert schrieb:
> On Apr 3, 10:10 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> gert wrote:
>>> I do understand, and I went looking into pySerial, but it is a long
>>> way from getting compatible with python3.x and involves other libs
>>> that are big and non pyhton3.x compatible.
>> So don't use Python 3.0. Most people are still using Python 2.5 or 2.6.
> 
> With all respect but why do people in general avoid the question when
> they do not know something?
> I appreciate the answer and its a valid solution, never the less
> useless in the answer I seek.
> 
> I hope I did not offend anybody. When you want to do something about
> the future, you have to take the hard way, so others can take the easy
> way. If somebody is stuck going the hard way, to clear it for others,
> you can not expect them to be satisfied with a easy answer.

But your path is clearly *not* the future. It would be fixing win32 and 
pyserial, if anything.

And the suggestion to change the set of tools if there is no reason to 
stick to the ones you use now certainly is a valid answer. Especially if 
they do know that these solutions work.

Diez